Job Description:
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer our fast-paced, customer-first Sponsored Ads team. This role is instrumental in launching innovative, customer-facing products crafted to delight and engage Chewy’s advertising partners, while scaling our advertising technology and strengthening brand partnerships. As a senior member of the team, you’ll help craft, build, and deliver intuitive, performant, and scalable Display ads experiences that power ad creation, campaign management, creative tools, and performance reporting across Chewy’s digital ecosystem.
Sponsored Ads at Chewy builds a state of art ads platform — offering pet parents relevant product options and deals while enabling brand partners to improve transparency and reach through targeted placements. Advertising is a fast-growing, strategically important component of Chewy’s e-commerce platform and a key driver of incremental revenue.
In this role, you’ll demonstrate your deep expertise in Ads serving technologies, large scale engineering systerms to lead the development of engaging web experiences for both advertisers and pet-parents as Chewy shoppers. As an early member of the team, you’ll be part of shaping the technical strategy, owning core areas of the system architecture, and influencing the user experience across Chewy’s retail media platform and advertiser portal. You will also help lead the team through ambiguous technical decisions and play a critical role in establishing front-end engineering processes.
This position presents a chance to drive a new initiative at Chewy ads platform, growing business value in a rapidly expanding sector of the company.
What You'll Do:
You will participate in working with all of the top engineers at Chewy and other partner technology teams to evolve architecture direction of all development at Chewy.
You will have responsibility over major components of Chewy’s architecture – both development and operational needs. You will be the go-to engineer for your part of the platform
You will be responsible for ensuring your systems are fully CICD and have responsibility of a plan to get to CICD if not there yet
Limiting technical debt will be your key objective
Hiring, training, mentoring and growing new talent will be a major part of your job as Chewy is growing all teams at a record pace
Drive innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
Conduct design and code reviews and improve on engineering rigor and standard
Debug production issues across services and tech stack
Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services
You will participate in setting guidelines for evolving development practices, as well as mentoring junior engineers
What You'll Need:
Bachelor’s Degree (MIS or CS preferred) or equivalent work experience
10+ years of experience in an object-oriented language such as Java and relevant Java ecosystem like Spring Boot based applications
Prior experience in Display ads engineering systems will be a huge plus.
Be a Hands-on Staff technical engineering lead who can work with technical stakeholders, product managers, data scientists and help evolve the technical roadmap of this new display ads-initiatives.
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development process including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Proficiency in Computer Science fundamentals – object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm - design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience with designing, building and deploying scalable, highly available systems
Experience with cloud & orchestration technologies (AWS Services, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
Have or (more importantly) be willing to learn deep domain knowledge in the area of retail e-commerce
Position may require travel
Bonus:
Experience in e-commerce, display ads engineering systems.
Experience with Scrum, XP or other agile methodologies a plus
Good communication skills with both technical and business audiences
Experience with data analysis/mining in large scale database environments a plus
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The base salary range for this role is $166,000 - $265,000.00.
The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact
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Amazon changed how we shop for books. Netflix transformed the way we consume movies. At online pet specialty retailer Chewy, we’re disrupting the pet products industry by offering our customers the easiest way to get the premium products they want, backed by unparalleled service. We strive to win at everything we do, whether that means bending over backwards to gain our customers’ trust and loyalty or creating a creative and stimulating work environment for our employees. We aim to wow our customers—and our employees. Trust us. You’ll notice the difference from the moment you become a candidate with us. At Chewy, we believe in ownership and accountability and value creativity. We are makers and doers who thrive on the desire to drive results. We approach our mission to provide the best service and pet products anywhere with a dogged determination and a disposition that’s as sunny as the South Florida oceanfront we call home. Sure, we work hard, but we have fun, too. Of course, that’s not hard to do when you get to bring your favorite four-legged friend to the office.